随着社会寻求创造可持续的未来，全球对矿产的需求将继续增加。在资源行业努力满足这种不断增长的需求的同时，它也在重塑自己，以减少对社区和环境的影响。在SMI，通过研究发现和全球合作倡议和联盟来创造变革。研究所正在与行业和研究合作伙伴合作，为研究和咨询工作带来深度和广度的专业知识。研究人员正在通过研究高等学位和越来越多的专业发展计划培训下一代行业和社区领袖。
该研究所是世界领先的研究机构，致力于通过负责任地供应矿产资源来开发变革性的人员、技术和方法，以应对全球可持续发展挑战。
21世纪的社会需要增加金属和矿物的供应，以解决人口增长、能源、粮食和水安全、减贫和不平等加剧等问题。提高效率、再利用和回收将有所帮助，但仅靠这些东西无法满足社会的需求。
在可持续矿产研究所，研究人员正在利用研究中心和大学其他领域的专业知识，为可持续发展挑战提供解决方案，并确保未来的原材料供应。该研究所战略计划侧重于采矿业面临的一些重大问题——解锁复杂的矿体，通过治理和领导力推动可持续发展，利用开发矿产使发展中国家的人们摆脱贫困，开发值得信赖的自主系统，以及适应行业应对外部变化和全球驱动因素。
As society seeks to create a sustainable future, the global demand for minerals will continue to increase. As the resource industry strives to meet this growing demand, it is also reinventing itself to reduce its impact on communities and the environment. At SMI, change is created through research findings and global collaborative initiatives and alliances. The Institute is working with industry and research partners to bring depth and breadth of expertise to research and advisory work. Researchers are training the next generation of industry and community leaders through research advanced degrees and a growing number of professional development programs.
The Institute is the world's leading research institute dedicated to developing transformative people, technologies and approaches to address global sustainability challenges through the responsible supply of mineral resources.
Societies in the 21st century need to increase the availability of metals and minerals to address population growth, energy, food and water security, poverty reduction and rising inequality. Improving efficiency, reuse, and recycling will help, but these things alone will not meet society's needs.
At the Institute for Sustainable Minerals, researchers are drawing on expertise in research centers and other areas of the university to provide solutions to sustainability challenges and secure future raw material supplies. The Institute's strategic plan focuses on some of the big issues facing the mining industry – unlocking complex ore bodies, driving sustainable development through governance and leadership, using mineral exploitation to lift people out of poverty in developing countries, developing trustworthy autonomous systems, and adapting the industry to external changes and global drivers.